AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnography, Margaret Mead, Human Nature
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C h a p t e r 3 | 1. Unstructured: it flows naturally; almost conversation like [qualitative] Participatory action research: involving subjects of research on the research process. Women have very little property in some cultures. Women become aware/ conscious of the inequality. C h a p t e r 3 | 2. It corrects false assumptions about other cultures as well as increasing the understanding meanwhile decreasing the misunderstanding. It also enables self-reflection of our own culture. Avoids culture bound thinking [ethnocentrism] and naive realism. It produces and reinforces critical thinking and knowledge. Margaret mead vs. freemah: two complete different research in two complete different times: mead samoa research about sex differences in three different communities. She mainly looked at women and their role in the community: partial reason to why mead focused more on women was because of the communal gender restrictions meaning that the community had set gender restrictions.
